THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 30 June 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

(Australia-New Zealand Cable Service) SUBMARINE OUTRAGE. Tlio Eldor-iEtempster liner Addiali was submarined without warning 'Oil/ the night of the Uotili-lCtlli oume. After the vessel was a submarine hi'ttherto 'unseen emerged and ifired while the boats were.being lowered. She hit tlio Addnili seven times. The submarine came alongside tlio dliief officer's beat beforo the ship sank and put one oif its officers and four linen on 'board, who procebcllttd to Iboanl ' the Addah. After a couple of minutes they returned to the submarine and told the chief officer's iboat to dear out. .Meanwhile the master's 'boat, which already had been smashed by a shell from the submarine, was .tliiry to forty y'ards distant. . The submarine re-opened fire, shrapnelled •tlio .master's 'boat, and killed eight of tlio occupants. The shell tore the boati's stdni right off. The rniarine continued shrapnolling the swmming men after tlio boat sank. After the submarine commander believed hie lhad finished everybody in % the minster's boat het fired jeighfc shrapnel shells at the officer's boat, but fortunately nobody was killed. Several were .''lightly wounded, and the boat was badly damaged. The ' commander waved the chief officer to go and pick up the master and other swimmers; lie then made off. A 'French patrol steamer picked up the victims of barbarism. BRUTISH PiRTMIE MINISTER ON . THE WAR, (A.-N.Z. and Router Service."! THE WAR, Londvi, June 29 Spea:k)ing at fl'asgow lie. Right Hon. D. Lloyd 'George said that if the war concluded a single? honr before the Allies' objects were attained it would be the greatest disaster that ever befel mankind. CHAMELEON GREECE. Athens, June 29. Greece has broken off relations with supporters „of Germany. LOSS OF LINERS. London, June 29. Tlio Times states that the Mongolia is not the only -onso of the loss of a vessel by mining in the Sea of Arabia. The theory is held in shipping circles that the south-west monsoon has been blowing mines up from the Indian Ocean, which struck tlio liners. BRITISH ADVANCE. 'Headquarters report that the British advanced south-west of Lens, in a terrific thunderstorm, just before dark on Thursday. An average advance of five hundred yards was made along a two-mile front. The (British still are advancing), half way through Avion and also well south-eastward of Lens. The Germans have not coun-ter-attacked;, and all gains are consolidated. A correspondent who watched the battle from an elevation behind the Canadians says:—A black stormeloud came up, with vivid lightning and thundtorollaps, making indistingu tellable the howitzers. The inifantry stormed the outskirts of if/ens plain to the southward, to the acompaniment both of heaven's artilery and iHinig's. The aeroplanes pickled; the elements, literally iplayled wjftli the stonm, and again, from the sky, swept the Germans.

WiHKHHO ARE THE iIEGULATIONS Petrogr-ad, June 20. 'Extravagant Labor demands continue to render the industrial situation chaotic. Workmen often work for six hours and then take a dayi's rest. Wages had been doubled since the war began, and again they have beiem. redoubled sinoe ,tbe revolution. Unskilled men are making £500 per annum, and skilled men £>1000. If tlio workmen strike, wages will .be de>inanded' for the whole time of the dispute. When employers demur they are threatened with execution. It is almost impossible for factories to continue under present conditions. Several large factories announce their intention to close. Prices of many commodities arei tenfold; a simple lunch costs twelve shillings; (boots formerly sold at thirty shillings now cost £10. State Control seems to be the only method of overcoming the difficulties, and it is doubtful if this will prove to bo possible, at present. ARRIVED AT LAST. Mr. Henderson, MJP., of England, is visiting Moscow.